Quotes from Ruth Stout

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden."